Climax Change!

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Architecture's Paradigm Shift After the Ecological Crisis

By Pedro Gadanho

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Climax Change! examines how climate change and the environmental crisis will transform architectural practice, from design philosophy to professional ethics. It addresses the urgent need for a paradigm shift in architecture, highlighting the sector's substantial contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and advocating for ecologically responsible innovation. Through ten essays, the book explores themes like decarbonisation, degrowth, and the Great Transition, connecting climate debates directly to architectural thinking.
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Climax Change! is ideal for architects, designers, students, and professionals engaged with sustainable design, as well as readers interested in the intersection of environmental issues and the arts. It suits those seeking a critical analysis of architecture's future in response to climate change.

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Climax Change! represents the much-needed overview of how climate change and the current environmental emergency will affect the practice of architecture, both in terms of its design philosophy and rising opportunities to innovate and radically transform the current tenet of architecture's aesthetic, ethical and professional drives.

Climax Change! offers an overview of how the current environmental emergency will impact the practice of architecture. At a crossroads in which the construction sector and built environment produce nearly 40% of greenhouse gases accountable for global warming, architects are just starting to acknowledge their complicity in an impending disaster.

In need of a paradigm shift similar to that of the Modern Movement, architecture desperately requires clear guidelines and targets so as to operate its inevitable transformation towards an ecologically-friendly design logic. From historical analyses of ecocide or the environmental avant-gardes, to topics such as decarbonisation, degrowth, the Great Transition and the aspirations of Green New Deals, this book features ten essays around today's climate change debates, bringing them home to architectural thinking.

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Architect Magazine praises the collection for explicitly linking climate change debates with architectural thought and emphasises the call for clear guidelines to transform the profession. Midwest Book Review describes it as a clarion call urging architects to reconsider their role amid ecological emergency, recommending it for professional and academic collections. The book's author, Pedro Gadanho, is noted for a bold stance on capping new construction to address emissions.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781948765671

Publisher: Actar Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 August 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Actar Publishers

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 419.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 256

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Pedro Gadanho

About the Author

Pedro Gadanho is an architect, curator, and writer. He is a Loeb Fellow from Harvard University. He led a recognized architecture renovation practice until 2012, when he became the curator of contemporary architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. There, he curated the Young Architects Program and exhibitions such as 9+1 Ways of Being Political, Uneven Growth, and A Japanese Constellation. He was the founding Director of MAAT, Lisbon's Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, where he initiated more than 50 projects, including publications such as Utopia / Dystopia, Tension & Conflict, and Eco-Visionaries. He has edited Beyond, Short-Stories on the Post-Contemporary, the ShrapnelContemporary blog, and contributes regularly to international publications. He wrote Arquitetura em Pblico, a recipient of the FAD Prize for Thought and Criticism in 2012.